Dimes: A version of this story is in my book The Armadillo Recon Unit. I’ve changed the ending just a bit to make this telling a bit more kid friendly. I really like this story and have always thought it was pretty funny (if I do say so myself), but I gave up trying to tell it after a few disastrous attempts. The math gets me every time! The math, however, is one of the things I like best about this story. I’ll try very hard to remember this story correctly from now on, so I can tell it more often.
